Morris B. Parker grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and spent his summers in Penn Yan, New York. His father purchased the South Homestake located in White Oaks, New Mexico in 1879 and the family moved there in the summer of 1882. He went back to New...
Robert and Brereton Catton left their native Scotland and arrived in Hawaii in 1878. They had six children: Margaret Mary Louise (known as "Mary"), Janet Renny (known as "Renny"), John Herbert, Robert Redford, Andrew Allen, and Richard Belmont....
Big Creek #4 project: Shot looking at Dam 7, almost complete looking up from the riverbed, downstream of dam. - with a group of (16) 4x5, documented, color transparancies with an invalid numbering scheme. They are SCE negs but, have been placed...
Image of an elevated landscape view looking southwest over Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, and surrounding mountains, showing a couple on a cliff in the foreground looking over the town with a canal, and the Susquehanna River.
After working as a draftsman for the U.S. Navy and the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, J. Goldsborough Bruff went to California to seek gold. He was the leader of the Washington City and California Mining Association wagon traincompany, which...
Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking towards Camp 21 from South end of dam. - Status of construction early in second season, looking North from near the South tower.
Big Creek, Shaver Lake Dam - Looking across Shaver Dam showing middle section complete. - Looking south, showing status of construction one year after placing first concrete.
Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Looking east - Angle Buttress 10 in foreground. [questionable data in logbook] [Looking across Arches and Buttresses being formed.]
Copy of report on Huntington Lake Dams by H. W. Dennis - page 7: 23. Looking east from gatehouse, Dam #1 showing parapet & top berm. 24. Auxiliary Spillway looking west. 25. Upstream face of spillway, looking west. 26. View of spillway from...
Big Creek, Huntington Lake Dams - Copy of Page 9 of Stone & Webster Report on Backfills on Dams at Huntington Lake: 27. Looking south from station 0+75. Cutoff wall during excavation. 28. Looking north from station 0+60, during excavation. ...
Image of Abraham Lincoln in front of a tent looking to the left, General McClarnand to his left. Pinkerton is in civilian cloths and is looking right at the camera.
The Herbert William Singleton Collection is an outstanding group of Civil War photographs that includes the work of noted photographers Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, William H. Tipton, and George S. Cook. Lindsey M. Gould, a Civil War veteran,...
Yerkes Observatory under construction, looking northeast. The brick work for the first and second floors is complete, and about half of the steel girders are in place for the great dome. The base for the great dome is on the left, and the base of...
City of Pasadena, looking west. Several houses, and other buildings, are seen scattered throughout the area. Orange tree orchards are in the foreground. The San Gabriel Mountains are to the right, in the background.
Yerkes Observatory under construction, looking northeast. The brick work for the first and second floors is complete, and about half of the steel girders are in place for the great dome. The base for the great dome is on the left, and the base of...